{"id":815,"date":"2012-09-07T00:21:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T06:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2012-09-06T07:23:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T13:23:18","slug":"man-swallows-14000-diamond-at-sri-lanka-gem-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/man-swallows-14000-diamond-at-sri-lanka-gem-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Man swallows $14,000 diamond at Sri Lanka gem show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/images\/size\/x\/2012\/09\/photo_1346835985789-1-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Chinese man was arrested for attempted theft and taken to hospital for a dose of laxatives on Wednesday after swallowing a diamond worth nearly $14,000 at a gem exhibition in Sri Lanka, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old had asked the stall owner for a close inspection of the diamond on the opening day of Facets Sri Lanka, an annual jewellery show in the capital Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had taken the diamond out of a display cabinet and appeared to be appraising it and suddenly put it in his mouth,\u201d a police officer at the scene who declined to be named told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe owner saw this and alerted us,\u201d he said, adding that the man was arrested and taken to Colombo National Hospital to be given laxatives.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswomen at the hospital said that an X-ray had been taken and that officers were holding him under observation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the X-ray confirmed something that looked like a stone. The man has been taken away and he is in police custody,\u201d Pushpa Soya said.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs showed the man, dressed in a black shirt and jeans with his head bowed, being escorted from the exhibition centre by uniformed policemen.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the stall owner valued the missing diamond at 1.8 million rupees ($13,600).<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka does not mine diamonds but it has a large gem and jewellery industry and is famed for its blue sapphires.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese man was arrested for attempted theft and taken to hospital for a dose of laxatives on Wednesday after swallowing a diamond worth nearly $14,000 at a gem exhibition in Sri Lanka, police said. The 32-year-old had asked the stall owner for a close inspection of the diamond on the opening day of Facets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}